announced <\/a>that it was bringing back Roeper\u2019s news column twice a week while retaining him as film critic. His first column was to have appeared Tuesday, but now all bets are off.<\/p>\nRoeper, 58, has been a mainstay of the Sun-Times since he began as a freelance writer and editorial assistant in 1982. He was named a full-time columnist in 1987 and shifted to film critic following the death of Roger Ebert in 2013. The two hosted the nationally syndicated movie-review show \u201cEbert & Roeper\u201d from 2000 to 2008.<\/p>\n
A Chicago native who grew up in south suburban Dolton, Roeper graduated from Thornridge High School and Illinois State University.<\/p>\n
Roeper also contributes movie reviews to \u201cWindy City Live\u201d on ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7 and appears regularly on Roe Conn\u2019s afternoon show on Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720. He is the author of eight books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Chicago Sun-Times has benched Richard Roeper, the veteran columnist and film critic, in the wake of a New York Times report on the buying and selling of fraudulent social media followers. Editor-in-chief Chris Fusco confirmed the Sun-Times was investigating Sunday\u2019s New York Times story, which identified Roeper among numerous celebrities who bought Twitter followers... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16689,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions\/16689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}